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Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 974

Craig Partridge
CSNET CIC BBN Laboratories Inc
January 1986

### MAIL ROUTING AND THE DOMAIN SYSTEM

### Status of this Memo

This RFC presents a description of how mail systems on the Internet are expected to route messages based on information from the domain system described in RFCs 882, 883 and 973. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

### Table of Contents

Introduction
What the Domain Servers Know
General Routing Guidelines
Determining Where to Send a Message
Issuing a Query
Interpreting the List of MX RRs
Minor Special Issues
Examples

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